Essential Listening: Vanilla Fudge – The Complete Atco Singles (CD)

21 April 2015

They are on the short list of the heaviest bands ever to hit the charts, which they did eight times. They are also quite possibly the greatest cover band of all time, with their version of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" easily among the most inventive covers ever recorded. And they are the missing link between psychedelia and heavy metal. They are Vanilla Fudge, and this 19-track collection is the first dedicated to their classic singles for the Atco label, all here in their (mostly mono) original single versions, over half of which have never been reissued.

They are on the short list of the heaviest bands ever to hit the charts, which they did eight times. They are also quite possibly the greatest cover band of all time, with their version of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" easily among the most inventive covers ever recorded. And they are the missing link between psychedelia and heavy metal. They are Vanilla Fudge, and this 19-track collection is the first dedicated to their classic singles for the Atco label, all here in their (mostly mono) original single versions, over half of which have never been reissued.

Tracks: You Keep Me Hangin’ On / Take Me for a Little While / Where Is My Mind / The Look of
Love / Come by Day, Come by Night / Thoughts / Season of the Witch Pt. 1 / Season of the Witch
Pt. 2 / Shotgun / Good Good Lovin' / Some Velvet Morning / People / Need Love / I Can’t Make It
Alone / Lord in the Country / The Windmills of Your Mind / Mystery / The Stranger / Some Velvet
Morning (DJ promo edit)